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Taking That Last, Frightening Step Off the Edge Into Oblivion

November 30, 2001 by David Downs

I weigh these thoughts heavily, stand up on wobbly legs, and feel the wind against my back. On the horizon, the Channel Islands bathe in fog and I muster my strength.
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Living Without Vowels: When It Comes to Drugs, Watch Your Glass and Ass

November 30, 2001 by Steven Ruszczycky

While the decision to do drugs is a personal choice, anyone using them for the purposes of rape ought to have their gonads removed by a hungry poodle.
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Grad Students Bite Back at Elections

November 30, 2001 by Brendan Buhler

Fed up with the way mandatory student fees are dumped on them, grad students are threatening to make this year's campuswide elections worthless.
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We Can Learn About Terrorism From the Israelis

November 30, 2001 by Jarad Bernstein

Just as America is hunting down bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, Israel is hunting down terrorist members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and other...
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SAT Success Is Best Left to the Boot Straps

November 29, 2001 by Danny MacLeith

I find it extremely hard to believe that just because a test-taker comes from a low-income neighborhood or family, answering questions about high school mathematics is so much more difficult for them ...
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In Memory: El Canario (1988 – 2001)

November 29, 2001 by Staff

The weatherbike was stolen last week. It was parked, whistling cheerfully at passerby in its bright, yellow fashion. The weatherbike was always cheerful, even when it lost its handlebars and the brake...
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A Living Wage for the Upper-Middle Class

November 29, 2001 by Brendan Buhler

It's possible to get the Santa Barbara City Council to care about the cost of living for city employees, but only if said employees are making about $190,000 per year.
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One Nation, Under God, Uncoerced …

November 29, 2001 by Richard Flacks

Gail Marshall's request that her advisory commission itself decide whether to make the Pledge was squarely in line with that Court ruling and with longstanding American distaste for coerced patriotism...
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Weather: We’re The Golden Children Turning Bronze

November 28, 2001 by Staff

The Hometown WeatherQuintilogy: #3 Santa Barbara is too expensive for people with actual problems. Ridiculous local apartment rents equal a house mortgage in any rural shithole, so you can’t aff...
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Rughe Elephant

November 28, 2001 by Staff

The Lompoc Economic Development Committee member is in trouble for sending letters to south coast newspapers, stating that "Muslims are out to destroy our world."
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Please, Please, Please Gimme Some o’ Dat Plover Lovin’, Baby

November 28, 2001 by David Downs

Beach coitus interrupted by a Frisbee to the dome is harsh for any species, but the snowy plovers, whose breeding problems have closed Sands Beach, will get no sympathy from me.
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Something for Which To Give Thanks

November 28, 2001 by Leila Drake

Thanksgiving meant something very different to me this year than it has before. I was the victim of the first reported sexual assault this year, on Sept. 23, but this incident has had a very different...
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There’s Something Fishy About Rigs to Reef

November 27, 2001 by Eric Simons

California's been trying to decide whether to allow oil companies to convert their used oil platforms to artificial reefs for several years, and in the latest development, the governor vetoed a bill w...
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Drugs, Babies and Marriage

November 27, 2001 by Staff

Going home is always heavy. Friends and family can really jack up their lives while you’re away. I’ve found the majority of the hometown heaviness involves just three things: Drugs, babies...
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